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Monday 14 September 2026
Yole Group takes outside capital for the first time, selling minority stake to new French fund
Yole Group, the French market-research firm that tracks the semiconductor, photonics and electronics supply chains, has sold a minority stake to Cervinvest Scale, the lower-midcap...
Monday 14 September 2026
Scaling Photonics: Assembly, Test and Fiber Automation at SEMICON Taiwan

As AI continues to accelerate demand for high-speed optical connectivity, technologies such as silicon photonics, CPO, LPO, NPO and OCS are moving rapidly toward commercial...

Friday 11 September 2026
ficonTEC breaks CPO test bottleneck, teams with Hermes Testing
German silicon photonics (SiPh) test equipment maker ficonTEC has broken through a major bottleneck in co-packaged optics (CPO) "electrical-in, optical-out" testing and launched what...
Friday 11 September 2026
CIOE 2026: Hitachi relies on partnerships, not proprietary tech, to ride China's optical boom

At an optoelectronics trade expo in China, Hitachi High-Tech used its booth not to unveil a flagship product of its own, but to showcase...

Thursday 10 September 2026
ITRI to showcase 3.2T silicon photonics and AI data center cooling
Taiwan's 2026 Innovation Technology Expo will run from September 17 to 19 at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1. The Ministry of Economic Affairs Industrial Development Administration...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Hermes Testing ships membrane probe cards, targets SiPh and CPO
Hermes Testing Solutions said its August revenue kept rising and topped NT$500 million for the first time, setting a new monthly record on steady growth in semiconductor test equipment...
Thursday 10 September 2026
STMicro sees AI sales accelerating as factory transfers hold key to margin recovery
STMicroelectronics expects rapidly expanding AI infrastructure sales and stronger automotive demand to support growth into 2027, but its largest gross-margin gains will depend on customer...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Silicon photonics boom could push InP supply-demand gap above 70%, triggering race for strategic optical resources
As AI drives the transition toward high-speed transmission technologies such as 800G and 1.6T, silicon photonics has become increasingly mainstream in high-speed optical communications,...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Update: US finalizes US$775 million in CHIPS quantum awards, with equity attached
Washington has converted the largest federal bet yet on quantum computing from a promise into a contract, and it is taking ownership in return. On Sept. 8, the US Department of Commerce...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
China's AI meets photonics: CIOE, IICIE, and elexcon open together in Shenzhen
The 27th China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) opened at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, taking place alongside the International Integrated Circuit...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Samsung speeds silicon photonics test plan with TSMC-vetted probe vendors
Samsung Electronics has moved to accelerate its silicon photonics push by using the same test partners selected by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. for key validation work, according...
Monday 7 September 2026
Taiwan-Netherlands silicon photonics team targets 1.6T DR8 in 2026, 3.2T optical links next
AI data center demand is accelerating the shift to faster optical interconnects, putting transmission speed, power efficiency, and packaging integration at the center of next-generation...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Hiwin Mikrosystem targets SiPh inspection gear as capacity expands 20%, order visibility extends to 2Q27
Driven by the shift from copper to optical interconnects, silicon photonics (SiPh) and co-packaged optics (CPO) are moving rapidly toward mainstream adoption, fueling demand across...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Semicon Taiwan 2026: A windmill in the die bonder, and a Dutch bet on photonics
Dutch equipment maker ITEC used Semicon Taiwan to promote a die-bonding architecture that it says triples throughput over earlier versions of the design by removing the largest source...
Saturday 5 September 2026
SiPh, optical lens demand ignite laser race
Silicon photonics (SiPh) is emerging as a core theme at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, and while the sector is still in an early, fast-growing stage, production-line investments are already...